110+ Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes (Introspective, Poetic And Inspirational)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author and aviator, best known for her non-fiction book, Gift from the Sea. She was the wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh, and together they wrote several books about their flying adventures. Lindbergh was also a pioneering female aviator, becoming the first American woman to earn a glider pilot's license in 1929.

Top 10 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

1. The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
2. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
3. The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
4. By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
5. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
6. I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.
7. My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.
8. When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.
9. Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
10. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Short Quotes

• Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
• Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
• For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
• Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
• Everything today has been heavy and brown. Bring me a Unicorn to ride about the town.
• If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
• To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
• Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .
• the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood ... is the hardest lesson of all.
• there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh Famous Quotes And Sayings

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. I have shed my mask. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you love someone you do not love them, all the time, in the exact same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls, and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of the joy in the now, some of the peace in the here, some of the love in me and thee which go to make up the kingdom of heaven on earth. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together. Then it gravely swished around its tail to completely encircle itself. It was so fit and beautifully neat, that gesture, and so self-satisfied, so complacent. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love is a force. . . . It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product. It is a power, like money, or steam or electricity. It is valueless unless you can give something else by means of it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I believe that true identity is found . . . in creative activity springing from within. It is found, paradoxically, when one loses oneself. Woman can best refind herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice! — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I think best with a pencil in my hand. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy! — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When the heart is flooded with love there is no room in it for fear, for doubt, for hesitation. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We walk up the beach under the stars. And when we are tired of walking, we lie flat on the sand under a bowl of stars. We feel stretched, expanded to take in their compass. They pour into us until we are filled with stars, up to the brim. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women – or by men – alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

So many things we love are you! — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To me there is something completely and satisfyingly restful in that stretch of sea and sand, sea and sand and sky - complete peace, complete fulfillment. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike - overwhelming. At least, we only get them bit by bit, in tiny flashes - in waves - that our minds can't stand for very long. p 199 — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The beach is not the place to work; to read, write or think. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy - even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am most anxious to give my own children enough love and understanding so that they won't grow up with an aching void in them--like you and I and Harold and Martha. That can never be filled, and one goes around all one's life trying, trying to make up for what one didn't get that was one's birthright, asking the wrong people for it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Perhaps both men and women in America may hunger, in our material, outward, active, masculine culture, for the supposedly feminine qualities of heart, mind and spirit — qualities which are actually neither masculine nor feminine, but simply human qualities that have been neglected. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only with winter-patience can we bringThe deep desired, long-awaited spring. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Who is not afraid of pure space - that breathtaking empty space of an open door? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. If one is recognized everywhere, one begins to feel like Medusa. People stop their normal life and actions and freeze into staring manikins. "We can never catch people or life unawares," as I wrote to my mother, in an outburst of frustration. "It is always looking at us." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Go for a short walk in a soft rain - lovely - so many wild flowers startling me through the woods and a lawn sprinkled with dandelions, like a night with stars. And through it all the sound of soft rain like the sound of innumerable earthworms stirring in the ground. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life Lessons by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

1. Anne Morrow Lindbergh believed in the power of self-reflection and the importance of living in the present moment. She taught that we should strive to appreciate the beauty of our lives, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant.
2. Lindbergh also encouraged readers to embrace their own unique gifts and to use them to make a positive impact on the world. She believed that by being true to ourselves, we can find true fulfillment and joy.
3. Finally, Anne Morrow Lindbergh emphasized the importance of connection and relationships, reminding us that it is through our relationships with others that we can find the most meaningful and lasting happiness.